Prof Alan Emery, FRSE

Career: Nat Serv 14/20 Kings Hussars 1947-49; conslt physician 1966-; emeritus prof and hon fell Univ of Edinburgh 1983- (prof of human genetics 1968-83), hon visiting fell Green Coll Oxford 1986-2006 (hon fell 2006-), res dir and chm Euro Neuromuscular Center 1990-99 (chief scientific advsr 1999-), hon prof Peninsula Med Sch Exeter 2006-; foreign assoc RSS Africa; vice-pres Muscular Dystrophy Gp of GB 1999-; memb: Exec Ctee World Fedn Neurology 1994-2002, RSL; advsr Asian Myology Centre Tokyo 2000-; pres Medical Genetics section RSM 2002-04; author of various articles in learned scientific and medical jls; various professorships, lectureships and awards incl Nat Fndn Int Award (USA), Pro Finlandiae Gold Medal, Conte Prize (Italy) 2000, Association Francaise Contre Les Myopathies Prize 2001, Lifetime Achievement Award World Fedn of Neurology 2002, Alumnus of the Year and Cockcroft Medal Univ of Manchester 2006, Double Day Award 2007; Hon MD: Univ of Naples, Univ of Würzburg, Univ of Athens; hon memb Gaetano Conte Acad (Italy); emeritus fell American Coll of Med Genetics; hon fell: Assoc Br Neurology, Netherlands Genetic Soc, Brazilian Muscular Dystrophy Assoc; FRCPEd 1970, FRSE 1972, FLS 1985, FRCP, FRSA, Hon FRS, Hon FRSM

Books and Publications: 20 books incl: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (3 edn 2003), Muscular Dystrophy - The Facts (3 edn 2008), The History of a History of a Genetic Disease (1995, 2 edn 2011), Diagnostic Criteria for Neuromuscular Disorders (2 edn 1997), Neuromuscular Disorders: Clinical and Molecular Genetics (1998), The Muscular Dystrophies (2001), Medicine and Art (2003), Surgical and Medical Treatment in Art (2006), Mother and Child Care in Art (2007), Poems (2007), Questioning Days (2010), Haiku (2011)